Cardamom

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 1,730 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 480 mm it can use in a normal year, and 280 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 22–30 °C on average, and survives 10–35 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 30 °C / 22 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 21 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 21 °C
• Sep 28 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 29 °C / 21 °C
• Nov 29 °C / 19 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 17 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 17 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 19 °C
• Mar 35 °C / 21 °C
• Apr 36 °C / 23 °C
• May 34 °C / 23 °C
• Jun 30 °C / 22 °C

Soil

Soil for Cardamom: 8 out of 10 (good).

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

Likes pH 5.5–6.0.

Money

Yield: about 0.7 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (your district's own figure looked wrong).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 3 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

Mandi price through the year (December 2025–May 2026, July–October 2026): about ₹2,56,375 a quintal across India's mandis.

Prices swing a lot from year to year, so income can be well above or below this range.

Prices are usually best in October.

Typical costs are about ₹1.7 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.